Fall Tourists Head to New York to Watch the Starbucks Change

September 24, 2014 – With summer at an end and fall rolling around the corner, families across the United States are uprooting one last time to see the beautiful, colorful changes of the season. While many favor picturesque locales such as Vermont or Colorado to see the changing of the leaves, ardent tourists opt to visit New York to witness the mesmerizing changing of the Starbucks, at any one of its 200-plus Manhattan locations.

“We come to the city every September from Rhode Island to see all the storefronts swap out their signs,” said Barry Haverford of Woonsocket. “It's really something to behold. You see such a massive shift in the order of things, and you think to yourself, 'Man... they're really banking on people liking pumpkin.'”

In addition to the beautiful inventory swap, the crisper air and cold winds also cause many to once again opt for hot drinks over cold, which customers will take and sip serenely as they rest on a street-light post next to an uncollected garbage pile, or sit on a bench in front of an undisturbed pool of waste water in the street.“Seasonal changes are a treasured part of any urban-locked American life, which we take to heart,” Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz told the press. “That's why when you enter a Starbucks anywhere, and I mean anywhere in Manhattan, you'll see the kinds of gorgeous, pastel drinks and pastries you could never hope to witness at Dunkin Donuts, or Caffe Bene, or The Coffee Bean, or Tim Horton's, or Panera, or Au Bon Pain, or Pie Face, or McDonald's, or the place around the corner from you that's not Starbucks that sometimes has a cat in it.”When polled, 35% of visitors said they would likely return in late November to witness the festive venting of the orange pumpkin sludge to make way for the orangy-brown gingerbread sludge.